Landscape Photographer Tries Wildlife Photography | Nikon Z9 + 100-400mm Lens
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- What happens when a professional landscape photography tries wildlife photography. I find the easiest possible place to shoot wildlife and it is amazing!
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"Wildscapes" best new photography phrase I've heard. I love the photos
The seal image at 18.18 is just sublime!
The whale tales are absolutely incredible. How they don't work I will never understand! The lone penguin one is fantastic too.
Besides your favourite pictures, I also really like the third "penguin on the iceberg" shot.
I love the one wit the pinguin highway with the glacier. Just amazing❤️
One of the One of the zodiac drivers said the seal behavior is practicing "jousting". Great images. Love the iceberg abstract with bird. The bird is so sharp!
Nigel .. lost for words wow .loved every image. What real privilege to be able to visit such a wonder of the world .
Nigel, why oh why are you so critical of these shots, you have just been to one of the most inhospitable places on earth and come back with masses of brilliant images, I would have been doing cartwheels of joy getting these images. Cheer up, these pictures are brilliant.
Hi Nigel! Excellent video and stunning photos. I would be interested in seeing the difference between some of the raw files and the final images, and perhaps some insight into your process for editing these types of photos. How did you get the snow to appear so beautifully white while preserving the detail of the textures and colors? The colors, especially, are just absolutely perfect and balanced in luminosity, hue, and saturation. Would you be willing to provide an instructional video for these photos? It would be a great help for anyone shooting snow and ice covered landscapes. Thank you for continuing to provide quality content. As an aspiring artist, I am grateful for everything you do that inspires me to keep at it.
Great question, I hope Nigel responds.
I really like the info on the pictures you show, especially the added comments like "taken from zodiac" or "needed a faster shutter speed". Just gives little things for me to think about when I'm taking pictures, not just settings.
I was in love with all the shots then came your last one with the seal....... Love love love it
The penguin highway and penguin on the iceberg are fantastic. That light looks so crystal. 👍👍
Three words spring to mind...awesome, awesome & awesome.
Stunning images Nigel! Love the penguin on the iceberg along with the golden tailed whale 🐧❄️📸
These are incredible. Love the seal surrounded by white!
Thanks for sharing your experience Nigel, love those last penguin and sea images.
Love the "wildscape" concept. Great shots and thank you for sharing! This is one of those places many of us may never get to so it's cool to understand some of the unique challenges of the environment.
beautiful photographic shots, the most beautiful processing I have seen, there is a lot of feeling, softness and elegance! Bravo!
I agree with Alyn Wallace, that shot of the whale tale is incredible! My other favorite is the penguin on the iceberg floating in front of that beautifully lit mountain and mist. You did great adapting such constrained shooting conditions and going home with two or three bangers to be rightfully proud of.
There are a lot of really wonderful photos here Nigel. And very glad to hear you're able to walk a bit!
Very beautiful! A photo with three penguins, very fine work! It resembles the strokes on Japanese paintings.
Those are some great images from Antarctica!
I'm glad to hear that your knee is slightly improving.
Holy shit… I’m Lost for words, I like to believe that I’m quite good at wildlife photography. Than I watched this video😅 especially since I find myself gravitating Towards wildscapes myself Cause normal portaits are overdone. The penguing on An iceberg with a mountain in the backgroud could be next winner of „birds in environment” category of Bird photographer of the year if only You Enter it. It’s such An amazing piece of art. Amazing shots but this one had me in awe for a while. Great video!!!
Fantastic Pictures, really loved the one of the Penguin on the iceberg and sleeping seal. Don Cassidy
My personal favorite was the light, mountains and small whale tail. It shows how a living being regardless how small focuses ones attention even with gorgeous light and beautiful mountains.
That first seal appears to be "posing" in a trophy case.... I bet that took an incredible amount of patience.... fantastic shot!....
What a trip, I like the "wildscapes". Thanks for sharing
You outdid yourself Nigel. Great images.
Gosh that image of the relaxing seal is gorgeous! So many lovely environmental pictures of the animals in their natural habitat. Try using a walking stick/seat for getting out in the woodlands, I use one and its great for walking and then resting when you need too 👍😁
They are all fabulous photos! I have the same lens and think it is utterly brilliant, so sharp and very useful close focusing ability even with a 1.4 TC it's a brilliant all rounder and very underrated! You have definitely championed it so brilliantly.
Thanks for sharing your talent with us. You have a gift. (The white bird is a snowy sheathbill rather than a snow petrel.)
Truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience!
dear nigel, yep, perfect done! animals could be the cherry at the cake for landscape shots. your understanding for composition comes through. perfect!!
Stunning! Master Nigel.
That favorite image is amazing indeed. Everything fits together so perfectly. And I really like the subtle color tones you used in all of these shots. It reflects the quietness of the Antartica really well I think. At least I imagine Antarctica to be quiet though ;)
The lone penguin on the iceberg in the big landscape is amazing!
Amazing video! Antarctica looks absolutely incredible. The highlight though was your revival of the word ‘courting’ 😀
Awesome pictures, Nigel! Congrats!
Love your inside videos as much as your outside videos this one was fantastic hope you’re feeling a bit better
I particularly enjoyed the two penguins looking at each other. like two people having a random conversation.
Amazing images Nigel and great views through your images. Great work
Absolutely incredible images! I can’t wait to watch it again!
Nigel I think you should regularly photograph wildlife within the landscape, it’s such an amazing genre and honestly we’ve all seen many millions of wildlife portraits, wildlife within the landscape opens up so many countless original photos. Fab film as usual, thank you.👏😀👍
Great work Nigel. The gallery is stunning 😍
Glad you are doing better
What an experience , and what amazing photos..
My God…you are one very fortunate guy! All your images are spectacular, but the last two blew my socks off! The ice burg with the seal and the seal laying on the ice are truly amazing! It doesn’t get better than that! Ever!!!
Great photos and prints, especially that giant pano from a couple videos back.
If you need a video idea while your knee is healing, maybe a matte paper printing tutorial on some of those images for those of us that love to print regardless of the cost! Maybe something along how to deal with the reduced tonal range, especially for shadows or darker overall images, and preserving the delicate snow detail, yet making the snow bright, print sharpening, etc. Something a little deeper than the basics of monitor calibration and ICC paper profiles. I love printing as well, and have a general preference for matte, but sometimes struggle with the range of matte paper, and your prints always look fantastic.
Proves your high quality and professional level as photographer.
Amazing, beautiful pictures.
Absolutely stunning images mate. Love that glowing yellow whale tail. The gull image is superb as well. Surprised you didn't share your black and white image of the snow petrel and penguins as well, loved that shot 🐧
Your vid is a great follow-up after watching this🙌
Nigel is like the new Peter McKinnon!
Great video Nigel, you mentioned mounting one of your prints - maybe you could devote an episode to different ways of mounting prints? I for one would really appreciate this.
absolutely stunning!!!
Amazing photos Nigel. I am sooooo jealous!👍😊
Morten does have at least one advantage Nigel, he’s not in a small boat full of other photographers.
The difficulties aside you still managed to get some truly beautiful images.
I think the sleeping seal is a real winner. Thanks for sharing again Nigel.
Stay safe 🇦🇺
Amazing shots Nigel! It is somehow more simplistic than the others, but that last shot of the seal sleeping on the snow is really fantastic!
Great insight. I enjoy the seal on the rock.
Great shooting！
Some absolutely stunning images there Nigel , you must be chuffed to bits with them
Awesome video Nigel, some stunning images! Hope you get well soon
Your best pic, is the one that you love yourself. This can change day to day with same grouping. Great images as always... love the channel... great work and thanks for taking us on this journey
Very glad to hear your knee is feeling a bit better Nigel - hope that gets sorted soon. What a treat to see the lovely printouts. Sleeping seal is stunning, as was penguin on bergette, and tailscapes. Thank you.
Wow several strong & beautiful images, but I also loved the mesmerising footage with the 2 courting seals. The contrast of the falling snow against the dark tones of seals and rocks, together with the slow motion of the seals...
Amazing shots. Love every shot
Some great images there Nigel. Amazing experience, but I would imagine challenging conditions at times. The stand- out for me is the high-key seal portrait - that’s an award winner I reckon and should be submitted to one of the major wildlife competitions. Superb 👍👏
I am pretty sure the white bird you labeled as a Snow Petrel is actually a Snowy Sheathbill. The Snow Petrel bill is all black and the Sheathbill is a chunkier bird. You got some great shots.
It was good to see a landscape photographer taking a shot at wildlife, Nigel! You did a good job. The one print with the iceberg and the penguin with the fog was incredible. I can see why it is one of your favorites.
Penguin Highway is one of the best things I've ever heard haha. Great video Nigel you did a stellar job! Really like that Penguin highway shot, some really stunning landscape shots too, that little bird on the rock at 14:30 really adds a bit of life to the shot. That shot at 17:00 is my favourite, absolutely awesome!
Amazing
These are fabulous images. I particularly like the seal image and would love to see the original RAW and the processing. Glad to hear that you are on the improve physically.
Fabulous images! Great video!
Awesome images. Thanks for another great video.
Fully agree… having an wild animal in his environment, showing more than the face of the animal, make the image showing “real-whildlife” is what I aiming for… but, what a challenge as the foreground much match the background… it adds a challenge thing to the journey of being a ‘wild-scape “ photographer 😂
PS: be aware that you may need bigger screen or bigger prints to really appreciate this way of taking picture… not as “powerful” on your phone to show to your friends!
Such a great video, amazing stunning photos of course but also videos! Like that whale tail at 400mm. Incredible. Have you made a full video consisting of your videos from that trip? I may have missed it, but if you haven't would love to see it (I did see some reels that were great too).
Also, glad to see you recovering well. Thanks again for these videos, they are very much appreciated!
I feel photography is really good mindfulness and personal satisfaction. Hope to upgrade at the end of the year from Panasonic S5 to the Z9
I wish I could do as well when I'm out of my comfort zone! Some fab shots there Nigel. The lone seal is amazing!
I think you can be very proud of the images Nigel, stunning collection, thanks for sharing.
Thumbs up Nigel, great video
Bravo Nigel , great photos, one reminds me of Salgado pinguins
Great photos. The one with the penguin in the iceberg with the mountains on the background is fantastic!
Fantastic images mate. What a stunning g place. 😍
Wonderful images Nigel. That lone penguin piloting his iceberg against the mountains is fantastic! Glad to hear you are getting around despite you knee injury. Take it slow though, it's too easy to re-injure it.
super images in a really beautiful location - good luck with the MRI etc...
Beautiful images! The penguin on the iceberg with the mountain behind was my favorite
Awesome images Nigel! Not easy to shoot from a zodiac. Your preferred are definitely mine too! Love landscape wildlife/birdscape images. Wildlife photography needs more of this type of work.
Just stunning! Really, really like that one of the penguin on the iceberg with the mountains in the background. Best environmental portrait I ever saw, bar none. Close up portraits of animals are fine, but nothing beats a scene like this. One like this gives a good sense of being there, longevity, something totally lost by a closeup eliminating the background.
Love the "wildscape" word and all of the images from Antarctica, thank you! Have inadvertently done a couple of wildscapes ... large ngorongoro landscape with a "small" elephant dwarfed by the crater sides, and a pod of "small" orca dwarfed by sea and far shore pine forest.
Nigel, some very beautiful images. I especially like your "wildscapes" where everything about the images is so minimal and the great use of negative space (snow). I especially like the one with the 3 penguins moving through the highway and the glacier filling the left area of the image: the contrast of the texture with the surrounding snow balances the image so well. Glad you made the most of your trip.
Some fantastic wildlife photo's there Nigel in what was far from ideal conditions.
I'm sure many of those images would do well in any wildlife photo competition.
Your expertise in composition has carried over well into a very different field of photography.
Yes the shot at about 17:30 in the vid is outstanding. Great work Nigel!
Very neat Nigel.
Amazing photos. Congratulations
Iiiincredible shots
Truly stunning images, so inspiring. I absolutely love your favourite landscape (gorgeous light and composition) and the sleeping seal image.
Love these images!
This is some of your absolute best work. You definitely COULD do more wildlife photography. Hate seeing you so critical… 🙁 These pics are 🔥
Thanks for another amazing, inspirational video Nigel. I was all ready to say the whale's tail in the morning light was my favorite. Then I saw the bird with the glacier abstract and THEN I saw the lone penguin on the iceberg. Beautiful every one. I love the concept of shooting "Wildscapes" especially for those of us that don't own bank account-draining 800mm f/4/400mm f/2.8 lenses! And I guess the term "Landlifes" could work to describe this type of photography as well. Thanks again!
Great images Nigel😁
Excellent video to demonstrate what works and doesn't when combining wildlife and landscapes. The landscape photographer's natural tendency to balance the "three grounds" most often conflicts with the wildlife photographers desire to isolate, simplify and fill the frame with a primary object. I do feel you did capture several lovely images within the context of a most difficult environmental challenge. Well done.
Absolutely love the image of the sleeping/resting seal. You do have a chance as a wildlife photographer. Thanks for sharing your stories..
Hi ND, great pictures, thanks for sharing them. The white birds you mention are Snowy Sheathbills, they breed in Antarctica and spend their winter in Southern Patagonia. Cheers from Ushuaia.